New Yorkers are the rudest, most arrogant people in the world. Go to a beach on Long Island, New Jersey, or Florida during President’s day week, put your blanket down in an area where no one else is around, and people will come sit on top of you. Listen to them speak: they are New Yorkers.

Speaking as one who spent her childhood in California with summer visits to New York, and you have to promise that Todd won’t hit me for sayin’–Californians by a landslide.

Whenever my NY relatives would introduce me to this New Yorker or that one, the person would always express an interest in what it was like in California, how I liked living there, what was different, what was similar, and how did I like New York? Perfectly polite conversation, in other words (and fuck whoever just said New Yorkers were rude, by the way. Nine times out of ten that’s a Southerner talking anyhow. New Yorkers may be rude, but everyone from the South is 100% full of shit with his fake politeness, one act to your face and another behind your back mind games. And I’m using “mind” loosely there.)

Ahem.

Anyway, when I’d go home and friends would ask me where I’d been all summer, and I’d say “New York,” they’d look blank and finally ask, “Why would you go THERE?” Like, why visit that sewer? I got sick of it fast and started making up bullshit reasons like, my mom won a contest, didn’t you see her on the Today show? Or whatever.

Oh! Remember when those I [heart] NY stickers first came out? My aunt sent me one and I stuck it on my binder (I was in sixth grade, okay?). Every third Californian I ran into looked at it all confused and asked, I’m not kidding, “What’s ‘iony?'”

So not only were they conceited as all hell, but dumb to boot. I loved California, but I can take or leave Californians. Except for your Todd who is awesome in all ways, of course.

“and fuck whoever just said New Yorkers were rude, by the way. Nine times out of ten that’s a Southerner talking anyhow. New Yorkers may be rude, but everyone from the South is 100% full of shit with his fake politeness, one act to your face and another behind your back mind games. And I’m using “mind” loosely there.”

Hey, now! Charleston has been voted the most polite city like 8 out of the last 10 years. Sure, they (including all my wife’s extended family) can be irritating, but I don’t think it’s “fake”

Second, you can’t blame us for being arrogant. Every fourth person I run into from New York stares at me blankly when I tell them I’m from California and asks me why in God’s name would I move here? Why would I come to New York when I had it all in California? And it’s not just New Yorkers who react that way. Everyone in the world basically bowes down and sucks the dick of anyone who is from the West Coast. I mean hell, you don’t even have to be from California. Just say you are from Portland or Seattle and you are bound to get someone to bob your knob.

So if you want to blame someone for Californians arrogance, do not point the fingers at Californians.

Everyone in the world basically bowes down and sucks the dick of anyone who is from the West Coast.

That is kind of true. I did run into plenty of people who asked where I was from and when I said “California,” apparently heard “The Promised Land.” Cortez wasn’t the only one envisioning streets paved with gold.

Still: I love how it never occurs to the Californian to just accept the compliments graciously and endeavor to return them in kind. No, we gotta get all Tupac vs. Biggie about this.

As a southerner I get to experience the worst of both, who move here for the lower taxes and raise my cost of living and bring their attitudes with them and turd up the beaches with overpriced condos which they will stand around whining about on the local news when it inevitably washes away into the ocean after the next hurricane blows through. KING. OF. RUN. ON. SENTENCES. BABY.

From here in Texas I’d say that Californians are the more arrogant. I’ve met transplants from both states and the New Yorkers just adjust better. Sure they’ll still root for old temas, grumble about the heat, and search for foods from home. But Californians want to change everything, and they are judgemental to boot.

There is a reason they had to leave California, because they ruined a state that could be dman near paradise. And now they’re trying to ruin every state they flee to. There is a reason why the average home in Cali costs over $400k. So have enough politeness to adjust to where you have moved.

As for those who say Texanz are the most arrogant, it’s not bragging if it’s true. We built this state up from damn near nothing, won our own independance, and continue to benefit the nation as a whole.

But I am grateful for California in one way, it’s where we send our overflow slacker population. After all, Austin can only contain so many of them.

I don’t know who’s more arrogant, but honestly, I think that everybody who’s not a Californian hates Californians. And I say that as a person who’s lived all but 6 years of my life in states not named California. The CA hate in the midwest is mind boggling. Like, when they see a crazy person on TV, they figure “Oh, they must be from CA.” When everybody knows the real crazy people live in FL. (kidding!)

And, to answer your question, I think New Yorkers are more arrogant. I don’t know how many times people have gotten in my face because I shouldn’t fuck with them because they’re from NY. I don’t think I’ve ever said that or acted like that about CA. Maybe the arrogance you detect is really just defensiveness, because so many people hate us just for being Californian.

But yeah, they pale in comparison to native Texans. When they say “Everything’s bigger in Texas,” I always ask why, because it’s a much smaller state than where I grew up, and that pisses them off. Except for the ones who don’t realize that Alaska is a state.